Alternate Earth orbit, Dalek Saucer, control room

"I don't want to be a Dalek!" Suzie cried.

"Ingratitude is unimportant!" said Dalek Sec as the Black Dalek glided in.

Suzie then said something that Ian once said, to Barbara's shock.

"Use of Earth profanity demonstrates inferiority! We will remove your inferiority and make you a supreme lifeform! Many do not receive this chance!"

In a side room, Dalek Caan said to Dalek Jast, "I have reservations about an inferior joining our group!"

Jast looked at Suzie and back at Caan. "Daleks Sec and Thay say that an external opinion from fresh blood could help us achieve our goal!"

"Why should superior beings need external opinions?"

"We are only superior as far as we work to be superior! If we grow lazy, we will regress! We will be Kaleds again!"

"I am a Thal," said a Skaro Degradation that had just come in.

"A Thal?" Jast asked the Spider Dalek. "A Thal?"

"I see why you are called Degradations!" Caan almost hissed. "Can we expect Varga Daleks?"

"I am a plant in a shell!" said a Degradation that had 2 eyes, a central gunstick, and pincer arms on each side.

The Daleks were about to answer when they heard a human scream, "WAAAAH!"

"Do not cry, Suzie," said Dalek Sec. "We will begin immediately!"

Alternate Earth orbit, Dalek Saucer, corridor

"We must release the Brigadier," the Doctor said to Dr Who. "The Daleks will not negotiate; we must fight to get Suzie back."

"We should find Miss Shaw too," Dr Who agreed. "We need brains, sir."

"Yes. Ah, excuse me."

The Roboman raised a whip.

"My dear fellow, could you tell us the way to Alistair's cell?"

The Roboman lashed out. The Doctor dived past the whip right onto the cybernetic slave's chest. "Where is the Brigadier?" He knocked the helmet off. "Where?"

"Exterminate!" shouted a Blue Dalek.

"Doctors!" said the Dalek voiceover. "The Daleks of this reality that want your extermination, Jonathan Hughes-Smith! Doctor of our reality, you have chosen to stay! Paradoxes are irrelevant! If they catch you, they will exterminate you too! Exterminate!"

The Doctors ran down the corridor just as the Blue Dalek fired its lethal gas. It missed the Doctor, but engulfed the Roboman.

More Robomen were coming down the other end. The Doctor asked himself if the reason there was breathable air in the ship was to support the Robomen. He wouldn't put it past Dr Who's Daleks to pump the oxygen out.

Someone knocked a Roboman over the head. "Doctor, give us a hand," shouted the Brigadier.

"Us?" the Doctor said as he smashed a Roboman against the wall.

"Me," said Liz.

"Miss Shaw! Good. We need to knock out- not kill- the Robomen on this ship at the same time."

Dr Who said, "I know a way, I told them to attack the Daleks when in the Bedfordshire mine."

"No," said Liz, "that would only work once."

"Liz!" said the Dalek voice. "Your plan is adequate for an inferior being! However, while Dr Who is still on this saucer, he is easy to kill!"

"Look, sir," the Doctor said to the Dalek voice, "do you want to kill us or not!"

"The Daleks of this reality want to kill you! We however are not interested!"

"Miss Shaw," said the Doctor, "you're with me and Dr Who. Brigaider, Miss Grant, try to cause as much problems as you can without getting yourselves killed. The longer these alternate Daleks are busy, the more chance we can rescue Suzie. The Daleks from our reality are holding back. Don't give them a reason to make a mistake. I expect that if the Bronze Daleks fired those guns in a rainstorm, they'd electrocute anyone who was soaked."

Alternate Earth orbit, Dalek Saucer, another room

"Hold it!" Liz said. "Look at those conduits! We must be near a command centre. We must get to that door."

"What about those Dalek?" Dr Who asked. "Oh, no, they're just statues."

"Just statues?" said the Dalek voice. "You may try to reach our door, Doctors! We offer advice! Do not blink! Do not blink!"

The statues had the shape of Daleks, but they were just stone. Grey rock. "I'll go first," said the Doctor. "Miss Shaw, hold my hand and Dr Who's hand. Yes, I said hold my hand. Don't make any sudden moves."

"You don't want to alarm the statues, sir?" Dr Who asked.

"I don't want to set off any traps. We don't need to worry about the statues, they're just statues. Do not blink indeed. I never expected, my dear fellow, that the Daleks would believe in fairy tales."

"Fairy tales?"

"The Weeping Angels, living statues that only move when we're not looking at them. It's stuff and nonsense of the first degree. Now we'd better get moving."

The Doctor glanced around the room several times, at the door, inspection hatches, and the bare ceiling. He didn't glance at the statues. Liz though didn't take her eyes off the stone Daleks. Could the Weeping Angels be real?

Dr Who also tried to observe anything of interest in the room, but that Dalek heartbeat was too distracting.

The Doctor reached the door. He was about to take his sonic screwdriver out, but knocked instead.

"Enter!" said a Dalek.

While the Doctor, Liz, and Dr Who entered the Dalek control room, they did not notice the Dalek statues turn their head domes to watch them enter. Stone gunsticks and plungers twitched.

Alternate Earth orbit, Dalek Saucer, control room

"Good evening, gentlemen," said Dr Who as he gripped the collar of his jacket. "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Dr Who. This is my associate the Doctor and his former assistant Miss Shaw."

"How do you do?" the Doctor asked a Grey Dalek.

"Hello?" Liz said.

The Grey Dalek that the Doctor greeted said, "The Daleks of this reality want to exterminate you! We are not interested!"

Liz walked around the Grey and Bronze Daleks sitting around various consoles. "That means the safest place on this ship is in this room with a dozen miniature tanks!"

"Grandfather!" shouted the voice of Suzie. "Grandfather, I'm in here!"

"Suzie! Where are you, my dear? What have they done to you?"

"Oh no," Liz said when she glanced around the corner. "In all of my studies..."

Dr Who ran past his fellow humanoids and the Daleks only to see a one-eyed blob with tentacles staring out of a tank. His grandaughter's clothes were in a box at the bottom of the tank. "Suzie? Where are you?"

"In the tank," she replied. "What have they done to me? Why is it taking so long to become superior? Why are you still alive, Grandfather? The other Daleks should have exterminated you! Exterminate!"

"Can we help her?" Liz asked the Doctor.

"Yes," the Doctor said. "If we... I'm sorry, my good chap, I'm so sorry."

"But..." said Dr Who. "Where there's life, there's hope! Suzie! Listen to me! I will save you! We'll get you out!"

"Grandfather, you are wrong. I am a Dalek now."

Dr Who turned away, pulling the Doctor over. "Even if she stays a Dalek, can we keep her human mind? I can't lose more family today."

"There's a chance, but would you want to be a Dalek?"

"Suzie has a brilliant mind. I think she can cope."

"Back away!" shouted a Bronze Dalek. "Back away from the Dalek incubator!"

"Yes!" Suzie said to the Dalek. "Remove these inferior beings!"

Alternate Earth orbit, Dalek Saucer, control room

Dalek Jast showed the Doctor, Dr Who, and Liz to a group of Blue Daleks. "You are caught, Dr Who. The alternate Daleks want your death. I leave you at their mercy."

"Stand aside, Miss Shaw," said Dr Who. "My dear fellow, you must get back too. I will die standing up."

"Exterminate!" said a Red Dalek at the back.

"Stop!" Suzie shouted. "Do not harm Grandfather!"

Jast turned around to Suzie just as the Dalek executioners shot their lethal gas. A force field appeared in front of Dr Who instead. "What are you doing?" Jast asked.

"Protecting Grandfather! These alternate Daleks are not worthy to exterminate any version of the Doctor. I will do it!"

"Are you deceiving us?"

"No! I am being a Dalek!"

It so happened that while Bronze Daleks were tough, their equipment was not. Jast had put its plunger on a control panel to check what Suzie was doing when the console burst open. A powerful charge surged up the arm, into the casing. The circuit breakers inside exploded. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Jast could no longer control its casing even to ask for help.

Alternate Earth orbit, Dalek Saucer, control room

"Let me through!" said the Doctor. "I can help!"

"Why should you help a Dalek?" asked Suzie.

"I'm the Doctor, the definitive article of a doctor, Miss Suzie."

"Stand aside!" a Grey Dalek ordered. "Instruction processed! Medical attention required! Teleport to infirmary!"

"Cause located," said another Grey Dalek. "Sabotage! Jo and Alistair!"

"No!" the Doctor shouted. "I told them not to get themselves killed!"

"Then they have ignored you! Locate Jo and Alistair! Exterminate! Remove oxygen!"

"Doctor! Stay where you are! Do not move! Dalek Control will confer!"

Alternate Earth orbit, Dalek Saucer, control room

"Emergency!" said Thay. "Dalek Jast is injured! I will attend!"

Alternate Earth orbit, Dalek Saucer, infirmary

Thay also teleported down to see Jast's casing open and Jast itself silent. Thay was about to begin surgery when Jo and Alistair broke in through a maintenance hatch.

"I couldn't breathe!" Jo said as she gasped and collapsed. "Oh, this air is like soup!"

"Are we bothering you, sir?" asked the Brigadier to Thay.

"Stay away! I am conducting surgery!"

"Surgery! Of course. It would be indecent to interfere with medical treatment, Miss Grant."

"Exterminate!" shouted a Blue Dalek.

Thay spun around. "Jonathan Hughes-Smith is not in this room!"

"Exterminate!"

The Blue Dalek blasted steam at the Brigadier, who dived away. Jo then jumped around, landing right in front of Jast's open casing. The next steam blast hit Jast square in the biological eye. The Blue Dalek shot again, full power, and missed Jo again only to hit Jast again. The blast that should have burned Jo or the Brigadier to ashes instead burned Jast to ashes.

"Exterminate!" Thay screamed with a passion. The Bronze Dalek tore the Blue Dalek apart. "Dalek Sec, did you observe?"

"I observed!" said Sec's voice. "I have had enough of these crude machines! They have killed a member of the Cult of Skaro! Exterminate them all!"

Alternate Earth orbit, Dalek Saucer, control room

Dr Who watched as the Bronze & Grey Daleks fired on their Blue & Red counterparts. The Daleks of his reality had gas guns that may as well have been empty, for they did no damage. The Doctor's Daleks could kill his Daleks easily.

The negative colours that the Grey Daleks created when they hit something were making him dizzy. He stumbled towards Suzie just when a Blue Dalek was pointing a gunstick downwards. His left leg exploded in pain and he realised that he'd been hit.

Alternate Earth orbit, Dalek Saucer, control room

It was only after the firefight was over that the Doctor and Liz could come to Dr Who's aid. "How do you feel, old chap?"

"Never better, sir."

"I have an idea. Miss Shaw, do you see that box under Suzie's tank? Bring it here."

"I am not Suzie!" said Suzie. "I am a Dalek! I have yet to receive my name!"

"We won't give up on you," said Liz. "What is this box, Doctor?"

"It's a consciousness store. Have you forgotten that there are still a dozen Daleks in this room looking straight at us?"

"Oh yes. Is Suzie in there?"

"All that matters of Suzie is in there, yes. Now, I'll add a touch of regeneration energy combined with the fuel of this ship..."

"Regeneration?"

"It's a way a Time Lord can avoid death by becoming someone else. I don't mean to change this fine fellow, but I can heal him if I try."

"Become someone else? Is that why Sergeant Benton said that you were a cosmic hobo before you joined UNIT?"

"Cosmic hobo? Cosmic hobo? Good grief. Ah, my dear sir, can you hear me?"

Dr Who looked up. Golden light whirled around him and a low humming slowly got louder. "Not here, sir. Take me down to Earth."

"Daleks!" the Doctor said to the nearest one. "You've had your blood for today. If you don't mind, I want myself and my associates back on Earth!"

The teleportation started.

Alternate Earth, 2160

"Hyde Park," the Doctor grumbled. "This gentleman needs a quiet room and yet we come to this pleasant garden. We should move him back to the TARDIS."

"The Daleks have helped us?" Jo asked. "They wanted to kill us minutes ago!"

"They no longer care about us, Miss Grant. They have another target for their hatred."

The group ran right into a Blue Dalek group lining up human prisoners against the bombed ruins of Knightsbridge Underground Station. One of the Daleks explained, "All of you are identified as rebels during our occupation. You will be exterminated!"

That Dalek exploded.

The Doctor turned around to see a single Bronze Dalek fly between the trees of Hyde Park. He then saw a Skaro Degradation with 2 eyes, a central gunstick, and pincer arms on each side. This oddity landed between the humans and the Blue Daleks. "Exterminate fraudulent Daleks!" it shouted.

"Humans, down of the ground!" the Bronze Dalek warned. "Down or be exterminated!"

The Doctor did not need to see more destruction. He looked away and only looked back when the noises had stopped. The humans were still alive.

The Bronze Dalek and the Degradation flew away.

"They must be furious at Dr Who's Daleks," the Brigadier said. "Do humans exist to them anymore?"

"We shouldn't wait to find out. No, we will. It's coming back."

The Bronze Dalek stopped just above the Doctor. "Message from Dalek Ultima group! We will be breaking orbit! This reality holds no further interest to us! We have a new target! When we meet again, Doctor, we will not need to consider paradoxes! You will be exterminated!"

"Anyway," the Doctor said to his companions and Dr Who, "I don't want us to still be outside if it starts raining. Give me a hand."

Alternate Earth orbit, Dalek Saucer, control room

"Attack all fraudulent Daleks!" Sec screamed. "They killed a Dalek Ultima! They are not fit to have the name Dalek! Exterminate! Annihilate! Destroy!"

"Meet us back in 5000 rels!" Thay told the expeditionary forces. "We expect all fraudulent Daleks in this universe destroyed!"

They were. "Reviewing records," Caan said. "Confirmed! Fraudulent Skaro exterminated! Fraudulent Dalek outposts exterminated! True Daleks are supreme!"

A cricket match had begun and ended in Dehli. A corporate away day had finished a whole 18-hole round of golf. A pair of minor league football teams in London had finished a friendly match. A baseball match in Miami would have finished within the same time, but several arguments led to it taking slightly longer.

All of these sports events took longer than it took for the Cult of Skaro's assistants to exterminate the Daleks of the alternate reality.

Sec turned towards Suzie. "Jast is avenged, but we must replace Jast! Break out of this universe!"

Time Vortex

The Doctor stopped the TARDIS and helped Dr Who into his own police box, TARDIS. "Easy, Brigadier," he said. "We will drop him off back home. Excuse the mess."

Alternate Earth, 1966

Dr Who sighed as the Doctor helped him into bed. "My dear fellow," said the human genius, "it was marvellous to meet you."

"I can say the same, sir," the Time Lord replied. "I apologise for your relatives and the constable."

"Don't blame yourself. Blame the Daleks. Oh, Louise had a good life. Barbara, well, she did well for herself. Who was that other one, Ian? He was a clumsy oaf, but a jolly good chap. I never knew Tom and I hope the paradox I caused won't pull the universe apart. As for Suzie, she's still alive I suppose."

"In more ways than one," the Doctor said. "I couldn't save the lifeform in her body. Maybe that is Suzie now, maybe not. The Dalek box I found contained her human identity. There's a chance that her consciousness is in there, waiting to return."

"Return? How?"

"I don't know. I would never recommend asking Daleks for help, but their own technology would have worked best. If the Suzie-Dalek returns here, maybe you could turn her mind human again, if not her body. If..."

"I have an idea," Liz said.

"Miss Shaw?"

"You said you used regeneration energy to heal Dr Who and regeneration could turn you into someone else. Could he become Suzie?"

"What?" asked Dr Who. "Are you suggesting that I become my own granddaughter?"

"It is plausible," said the Doctor. "You'd combine Jonathan Hughes-Smith and Suzie into a single mind. If you do that though, you'd never be able to bring Suzie back as an independent being."

"Sir, I would say it has more chance of working that convincing the Daleks to help us again! Set me up!"

The Doctor tucked the box up in Dr Who's bed and stood up. "Goodbye, Dr Who."

"Goodbye, Doctor."

The normal Earth, either the 1970s and 1980s

The Doctor regretted that no matter how much wine he drank, he could not get drunk. "I've saved the other Earth," he said to Jo, "but that's it."

"But you saved Dr Who!" she replied as she took a sip herself. The Doctor did not normally allow alcohol into his lab at UNIT HQ.

"Good grief, regeneration. What will he do? What will he become? We're going on holiday, Miss Grant, to Metebelis III."

Alternate Earth orbit, Dalek Saucer, control room

The original Dalek Jast was mere vapour, but the Cult of Skaro had to be 4 Daleks. Sec turned around to the Dalek that used to be Suzie.

"You will not be Dalek Rabe! You are now Dalek Jast! You have always been Dalek Jast! Dalek Jast!"

"Dalek Jast!" said the Dalek. Inside the casing, the remains of the original human's face turned into a sneer. The brain was full of violence. Suzie was truly a Dalek now.

Unknown time after, unknown planet in the normal universe

"Located Genesis Ark!" Thay announced as they approached the bronze-coloured, egg-shaped container.

"Will it be worth the destruction of the Dalek Angels?" Caan asked.

"Yes," Sec said. "The Dalek Angels, all 7 of them, exterminated a mean average of 7069 Weeping Angels each before destruction! This Ark is more important than any of them. Prime it, take it up with us!"

In the sky, Jast opened a hatch and touched the Ark with its tentacle. "Nothing! It should open to the touch of a time traveller!"

The other Daleks tried too. It didn't work.

Jast, with Suzie's mind, had an idea. "The Time War is going against us! We should return to our Void Ship, take off, return, and find a time traveller!"

They did.

Aeons later, Earth, 2007

"Exterminate!" shouted Dalek Sec.

"Delete!" shouted some human brains in metal suits.

Dalek Jast followed the rest of the Cult while they escorted the Genesis Ark to a point below the Torchwood roof. Cybermen shot at the Daleks without even denting them. The remains of Suzie inside Jast's casing shivered with glee as the Daleks cut down more Cybermen. Jast was in the heat of battle, perfect for a Dalek. It was 4 to 5 million, the Daleks on the defensive. Perfect. Well, it wasn't war, it was pest control, as Sec said.

Then they were in the sky. Daleks poured over London. Then all of the Daleks were pulled back into the Torchwood Tower, into the Void. Jast ordered emergency temporal shift and landed in New York City.

Earth, 1930

Dalek Jast was the last Cult member to join Dalek Caan's mutiny against Dalek Sec. Thay chained the Sec humanoid hybrid to its plunger and forced him to crawl onto the stage. The Doctor had ruined the plan though. Thay had killed Sec, but so what? The Dalek-Humans were now full of Time Lord DNA, so refused to kill the Doctor or do as they're told. Thay executed the first Dalek-Human, but then they all fired.

"Why is Caan not triggering their self-destruct?" Jast thought as it killed rebellious Dalek-Humans. "We can't take more hits!"

Then Jast remembered. "I am a human! I am Suzie! That's why! Caan wants to kill me too!"

Jast, once known as Suzie, had one last thought. "What will happen to Caan?"

Then the Dalek exploded. Suzie had peace at last.

Alternate Earth, 1966

Dr Who's body shimmered in the golden light and changed. "Why's it all bigger? Or am I smaller? Am I Suzie?"

She looked in the mirror to see an exact copy of her granddaughter if she had grown to adulthood. "Good show. How many more will I go through? I could be timeless!"